WASHINGTON — House and Senate Republicans are calling for an end to members’ use of the controversial TikTok video app for “official communications.”
Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rep. Daniel Crenshaw of Texas lead a group of more than a dozen GOP members of the House and Senate agitating for a congressional rule change to ban members from using the app in an official capacity as members of Congress, though they could still use it for personal or campaign purposes.
“Some members of Congress who regularly use the app have minimized the security threat to our nation,” the lawmakers wrote Monday in a letter to leaders of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the Committee on House Administration. “(But) there are several popular social media apps that are not at the same risk for the potential transfer of sensitive, private information to an adversarial foreign government.”
